E-Readers at the Kasson Library

Library Director Bonnie Adams formed a partnership with Rochester's Best Buy North, Barnes & Noble at the Chateau downtown location and Apache Mall, Jonya from Selco Regional Library. Kasson Library staff recognized after last year's holiday season many people received e-Readers as gifts and did not know how they worked or how to download books from the area libraries, Barnes & Noble or Amazon. This year the Kasson Library decided to be proactive in helping educate patrons on e-Readers and which of these e-readers would best fit their lifestyles.

Managers at all locations agreed to have staff come to the library for seven informational and educational classes that were held during the day and evening. We have had 32 people attend 4 of the 7 classes about Nooks, Kindles, iPads, hotspots, routers etc. All were all excited to see, touch and hear of the new products available. After listening to the presentations it did not matter whether you already had a reader or not you learned helpful additional information. Many changed their minds after the information they received from these classes. After one classes a patron went right to the store and purchased a Nook tablet for her husband and a Simple Touch reader for her.



What participants really enjoyed was the one-on-one service
of answering questions and learning about extra features available on their device that they had not tried. All who attended want to thank Christine, Heather and John from the downtown Barnes & Noble store, Janice from the Apache Mall store and Gerrad and Colin from the North Best Buy store for their generosity, knowledge and helpfulness in selecting what e-Reader would work best for them and their families.


Left: Christine and John (far right) from downtown Barnes & Noble from downtown Barnes & Noble

Right: Colin & Gerrad from North Best Buy